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Web Exclusive: 32 Large Patient Data Breaches Since September, Says OCR
An HHS organization which oversees enforcement and compliance of the HIPAA privacy and security rules reports that...
Security Breach Puts 500,000 BlueCross Members' Data at Risk
The theft of 57 hard drives from a BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee training facility last October has put at risk the...
Flurry of HIPAA Activity Expected Over Next Three Months
The Office for Civil Rights in all likelihood will publish a draft or interim final rule outlining the new requirements...
Time to Check Dangers of Social Networking
Though many popular Web sites have strong privacy practices in place, there is still no better time to analyze where...
HIPAA's Harm Threshold is a Huge Weakness
A lawyer and panelist at last week's 17th annual national HIPAA Summit called HHS' new "harm threshold" in...
Is HIPAA's New Harm Threshold Good News or Bad?
HHS' interim final rule on breach notification released last week included most of the same requirements in the HITECH...
Blumenthal: 'Meaningful use' definition will be ready in spring 2010
National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal predicted that the final definition for "meaningful use"...
Industry not prepared to meet the security challenges
The HITECH Act offers a massive opportunity for providers to maximize the value of data and the promise of new...
Beware of More Stringent State HIPAA Laws
The alleged patient-record snoopers at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Hospital in Los Angeles County picked the wrong...
KP Bellfower Unsure if it Will Appeal Second Fine Connected to Octomom
An official at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Hospital says it's "too soon" to determine if the suburban Los...